McGregor Museum’s North Iowa Times digitization project is complete

McGregor Museum’s North Iowa Times digitization project is complete 0 An Advantage Preservation project was recently featured in the Clayton County Register as the McGregor Historical Museum’s North Iowa Times digitization...

Charter Oak Times now available online

Advantage Community History Archive: Charter Oak Times now available online 0 The launch of the Charter Oak Times digital archive was featured in The Mapleton Press recently. The Advantage Preservation...

Digital newspapers available via Morton James Public Library site (NE)

Advantage Community History Archive: Digital newspapers available via Morton James Public Library site (NE) 0 Nebraska historians and genealogists have a new resource available as the Morton-James Public Library completed...

Sudbury library embarks on digitizing newspaper microfilm (MA)

Advantage Community History Archive: Sudbury library embarks on digitizing newspaper microfilm 0 The Goodnow Library of Sudbury, Massachusetts hopes to partner with Advantage Preservation to digitize its collection of the...

Advantage Community History Archive: From Fort Fairfield to Shanghai

Advantage Community History Archive: From Fort Fairfield to Shanghai 1 Stirling Fessenden was an American lawyer who practiced in Shanghai. He was the chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council from...

Advantage Preservation: Library launches digital archive of historic newspapers 0 The launch of the Cranston Public Library digital archive was featured in the Cranston Herald this week. The Cranston Public...

Auburn library receives grant for newspaper archiving (NY)

Thanks to a grant from the South Central Regional Library Council, the Seymour Library has partnered with Advantage Preservation to microfilm and digitize 1,600 pages and 53 rolls of microfilm... Read More

Digital newspapers available via Morton James Public Library site (NE)

Advantage Community History Archive: Digital newspapers available via Morton James Public Library site (NE) 0 Nebraska historians and genealogists have a new resource available as the Morton-James Public Library completed... Read More

Sudbury library embarks on digitizing newspaper microfilm (MA)

Advantage Community History Archive: Sudbury library embarks on digitizing newspaper microfilm 0 The Goodnow Library of Sudbury, Massachusetts hopes to partner with Advantage Preservation to digitize its collection of the... Read More

Advantage Community History Archive: From Fort Fairfield to Shanghai

Advantage Community History Archive: From Fort Fairfield to Shanghai 1 Stirling Fessenden was an American lawyer who practiced in Shanghai. He was the chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council from... Read More

Echoes of Elmwood’s history now captured online (NE)

Advantage Preservation: Echoes of Elmwood's history now captured online (NE) 0 An Advantage Preservation project was in the news this week as the Fremont Tribune of Fremont, Nebraska published an... Read More

Advantage Preservation: Library launches digital archive of historic newspapers 0 The launch of the Cranston Public Library digital archive was featured in the Cranston Herald this week. The Cranston Public... Read More

Advantage Preservation: Lincoln County News & Skidompha Partner to Digitize Newspaper Archives 0 The Lincoln County News and Skidompha Public Library of Damariscotta, Maine are working together to fund a... Read More

Introducing: Advantage Archives

Same Team, Same Mission... New Name Advantage Archives, CFO - Chris Donohue We are excited to share some news! The Advantage Preservation and Advantage Information Management Solutions divisions of The... Read More

Initial fundraising goal for newspaper digitization project reached

Initial fundraising goal for newspaper digitization project reached 0 The York News-Times of Nebraska published an article yesterday highlighting the efforts of Fillmore County libraries to raise funds to... Read More

Luther's Preus Library and Winneshiek County Historical Society awarded grant to digitize County newspapers 0 Luther College's Preus Library and the Winneshiek County Historical Society have been awarded a $30,000... Read More

McGregor Historical Museum working to digitize North Iowa Times

McGregor Historical Museum working to digitize North Iowa Times 0 The Clayton County Register: McGregor Historical Museum working to digitize North Iowa Times An article published yesterday in the Clayton... Read More

Biddeford history more accessible than ever (Maine)

Advantage Preservation: Biddeford history more accessible than ever (Maine) 0 Biddeford history is more accessible than ever thanks to the McArthur Public Library's project with Advantage to digitize and provide... Read More

Advantage Preservation: James V. Brown Library looks to digitize 2 centuries of microfilm (PA) 0 An article featured in the Sun-Gazette of Williamsport, PA outlined the James V. Brown Library's... Read More

Cascade Library Celebrates 50 Years

Cascade Library Celebrates 50 Years 0 The Cascade Public Library is celebrating it's 50th anniversary, recognizing the years of support of and access to knowledge, entertainment, community engagement and literacy.... Read More

Nevada Library to digitize old issues of the community’s 124-year-old newspaper

Nevada Library to digitize old issues of the community’s 124-year-old newspaper 0 The Nevada Iowa Journal announced the authorization by publisher GateHouse Iowa to allow Advantage Preservation to digitize the... Read More

Christmas Comes Early For Digitized Newspapers In Chattanooga

Advantage Preservation: Christmas Comes Early For Digitized Newspapers In Chattanooga 0 A new Advantage Preservation project was featured in The Chattanoogan yesterday as we have partnered with David Moon and... Read More

Paulding Library Launches Digital Newspaper and School Yearbook Site

Advantage Preservation: Paulding Library Launches Digital Newspaper and School Yearbook Site 0 The launch of the Paulding County Carnegie Library online newspaper and school yearbook archive was featured in The... Read More

Commercial-News Details Genealogy Hunt

Commercial-News Details Genealogy Hunt (Illinois) 0 Advantage Preservation was recently featured in the Commercial News of Danville, Illinois as they detailed the "genealogy hunt" and genealogical materials helpful to their... Read More

Apply for Funding for Your History Project

Apply for Funding for Your History Project Grant Program for Historical Resources of Iowa 0 "Everywhere you look, Iowans are investing in arts, history and cultural projects that create job... Read More

Amesbury Library Offers Digital Trip Through Time (MA)

Amesbury Library Offers Digital Trip Through Time Amesbury Public Library 0 The Amesbury Public Library and Advantage Preservation were featured in The Daily News of Newburyport, Massachusetts this week for the... Read More

Advantage Preservation: Paulding County Carnegie Library Newspaper Digitization Project (Ohio) 0 Thanks to a generous donation from the Paulding County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society, Advantage was able to... Read More

Why Digitize Historic Content?

Advantage Preservation: Why Digitize Historic Content? 0 Historical newspapers and documents provide the first draft of our communities history and they not only need to be preserved, but made easily... Read More

Bossard to Offer Digital Newspapers Online (Gallipolis, OH)

Advantage Preservation: Bossard to Offer Digital Newspapers Online Advantage Preservation is pleased to announce the completion of a recent project with the Bossard Memorial Library of Gallipolis, Ohio to digitize... Read More

Advantage Preservation to Digitize Washington County Newspapers

The IAHistory Project: Washington County 0 Advantage Preservation is pleased to announce an exciting development in the IAHistory Project as we further our collaborative effort to preserve valuable state history.... Read More

Auburn Library Adds Several Digital Newspaper Archives

Advantage Preservation was featured in The Citizen last week, a daily newspaper based in Auburn, New York. The article in The Citizen outlined a recent Advantage Preservation project to digitize... Read More

Advantage Preservation Community History Archive Directory

A directory of the Advantage Preservation hosted Community History Archives is now available online! Search historical newspapers from over 450 different collections in 38 different states. Publishers, libraries and historical... Read More

Get Involved: Iowa Newspapers Yet To Be Preserved

Advantage Preservation is pleased to be continuing our work with the State Historical Society of Iowa to preserve Iowa’s newspaper history. Currently, we are working to preserve the more than... Read More

Sidney Public Library’s Digital Archive Available Online

An Advantage Preservation project was featured recently in Nebraska’s Sidney Sun-Telegraph, as Sidney Public Library’s digital archive was made available and was “met with instant success”. The text searchable online... Read More

Digital Archive Created For Historical Newspapers of the Monadnock Region

The plan for a new Advantage Preservation digitization project was outlined in The Sentinel of southwestern New Hampshire on Tuesday. Advantage Preservation will work directly with the Peterborough Town Library... Read More

Local African American Newspaper Collection Available At MCPL

A recently completed Advantage Preservation project is in the spotlight this week as the Montgomery Community Media posted an article on the Montgomery County Public Libraries’ digitization of their local... Read More

Skidompha Library program can save family historical documents

An Advantage Preservation Digital Archive was featured in the Boothbay Register of Boothbay Harbor Maine on Sunday. The article provides information on a new program introduced this summer from the... Read More

Microfilm Types & Standards

The Preservation filming process includes a Master Negative, Silver Duplicate Negative and Silver Positive Service Copy. We will attempt to outline these different types of film as well as microfilm... Read More

Advantage Preservation: Wheeling History

Wheeling Newspapers are now available in a searchable digital format! Advantage Preservation is now digitizing the microfilmed versions of the Wheeling News-Register and The Intelligencer newspapers for the Ohio County... Read More

WWI Sentinel-Tribune Archive to Debut at Library

Advantage Preservation was in the news last month for a recent project to digitize war-era newspaper records for the Sentinel-Tribune of Bowling Green, Ohio. Debbie Rogers of the Sentinel-Tribune outlined... Read More

Advantage Preservation: The Missoula Missoulian

Advantage Preservation has signed on as the sole microfilm provider for the Missoula Missoulian, Montana's 3rd largest Newspaper! Advantage Preservation is happy to announce this partnership as we will be... Read More

Making Old Newspapers Searchable: Microfilm & OCR

The Paper Problem: With the newfound ability to assemble content and produce pages quickly and efficiently, existing papers increased their circulation numbers substantially. The demand for the paper on which... Read More

Making Old Newspapers Searchable: The Next Era

Despite achieving the means to print in mass quantities, the publishing industry’s productivity was largely constrained by the need to set type by hand. By 1880, the Linotype Printing machine... Read More

Making Old Newspapers Searchable: The History of Printing

Making Old Newspapers Searchable: The History of Printing Until the first part of the 19th century, the composition and typesetting were accomplished by painstakingly placing each individual letter into... Read More

Making Old Newspapers Searchable: The Beginning

Making Old Newspapers Searchable: The Beginning The newspaper industry in the United States has evolved considerably over the last 300 years. Each development in the typesetting methods, printing process,... Read More

Kewanee’s Historical Newspapers Online

The Advantage Companies was highlighted in the Kewanne, Illinois Star Courier for working directly with the Kewanee Historical Society, Henry County Genealogical Society and Kewanee Public Library to digitize over... Read More

Advantage Archives & Newspaper Copyright Law

Copyright Following the recent announcement of our partnership with the State Historical Society of Iowa, we have outlined our mission to microfilm and provide digital access to more than 12... Read More

Dubuque City Directories Available Online

Advantage Preservation is a division of Advantage Archives and as a Cedar Rapids based business we take an active interest in historical preservation projects in the state of Iowa. Advantage... Read More

Friends of the Eddyville Public Library Launch Newspaper Archive

The historic newspaper archives of the Eddyville Advertiser, Eddyville Free Press, Eddyville Star, Eddyville Signal, and the Eddyville Tribune are now available online. This article from the Oskaloosa Herald: offers... Read More

The Island Free Library Digitizing “The Block Island Collection”

Library Director Kristin Baumann, says The Block Island Collection including more than just The Block Island Times. It holds old town records, books, voting lists, hotel brochures, school yearbooks, post... Read More

Peabody Township Library Puts Old Peabody Newspapers Online

The Peabody Gazette-Bulletin was known at different times by different names. At one point the Peabody Gazette-Herald became the Gazette Bulletin. Then it was known as the Peabody Gazette, and... Read More

Historical Archives Of The Bay Times and Record Observer Online

The article published by Jack Shaum makes for a very interesting read for librarians, historians, students, and…. actually, anyone who cares about the preservation and accessibility of local history. The... Read More

The Historic Newspapers Of Seymour Online

The mission of the Jerome Journal is quite clearly stated on their website: “To collect, save and share information, pictures and documents about the history and families of Jerome, Lincoln... Read More

Catholic Messenger Achieves Go Digital

Barb Arland-Fye wrote an article for The Catholic Messenger highlighting a project to provide “Free and easy access available to Catholic history”. Barb’s article can be found here: Of note:... Read More

Jefferson Public Library To Digitize Newspaper Microfilm

The Jefferson Public Library is currently converting microfilm containing newspapers from 1866 -1977 into a digital, online format. You can read more about it here: Jefferson Library Director Jane Millard... Read More

Rolfe Newspapers Project

Louise Gunderson Shimon wrote a very informative piece that outlines the challenges and frustration that Rolfe Public Library faced in trying to get 101 years of their history digitized and... Read More

Clinton Area Newspapers From 1856 -1927 Available Online

Advantage Preservation was selected by the Clinton Public Library to digitize the corpus of defunct newspapers from the Lyons and Clinton communities from 1856-1927. Using microfilm currently housed at the... Read More

Oneida Public Library’s Long Term Plan To Make History Accessible

The Friends of the Oneida Public Library helping The Oneida Public Library unlock history. The library has begun a long-term project to digitize its microfilm collection of 19th century Oneida... Read More

Historical Monroe County Newspapers Online

Thanks to the Monroe County Iowa Foundation and a joint effort between the Monroe County Genealogical Society and Monroe County Historical Society, Monroe County history is now much more accessible.... Read More

Harvard Library Creating Digital Access To Old Newspapers

Shawn Shinneman recently wrote an article about the work done by Harvard Diggins Library to create access to 120 years of microfilm newspapers previously only available on microfilm: "It's so... Read More

Worth County Historic Newspaper Digitization Project

Cari Colby posted this article earlier this year about a project driven by the Margaret Jones Public Library to digitize over 128 years of Worth County newspapers. Advantage Preservation worked with... Read More

125 Years Of Central College Student News Available Online

Central College has partnered with Advantage Preservation to preserve more than 125 years of history through its student newspaper and yearbook. The original copies had begun to crumble, but the... Read More

Past Issues of The Stark County News and Prairie Time Online

Advantage Preservation has been engaged to provide microfilm digitization service to the Toulon Public Library and bring new pages to their archive. Recently added to the archive are pages from... Read More

Past Issues of the Huron/Erie County Reporter Newspapers Can Be Accessed on the Internet

Issues of the Huron/Erie County Reporter newspapers from 1880 to 1994 have been digitized by Advantage Preservation, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa based company with a focus on historical newspaper preservation.... Read More

Microfilm Digitization At Henry Public Library Continues

Advantage Preservation is working with the Henry Public Library on digitizing the newspaper microfilm in their collection. Microfilming serves as the standard practice for the preservation of newspaper content, but... Read More

The Way Library Now Offers Historical Newspapers Online

Advantage Preservation was selected by the Way Library to digitize its microfilm collection of newspapers. The library sees this as a “tremendous advancement over the microfilm”, and says as much... Read More

Bridgton News Archive Unlocks Nearly 150 Years Of History

Advantage Preservation, a division of the Cedar Rapids Iowa based Advantage Companies has been the working with the Bridgton Public Library to make the historical archive of the Bridgton News... Read More

Carnegie Public Library Makes The Review Available Online

The Carnegie Public Library has contracted with Advantage Preservation to digitize the Review, and make these newspapers dating back to 2007 available online. We have started having The Review digitized... Read More

Over 95 Years Of The Swanton Enterprise Now Online

The Toledo Blade, posted an article about the archive the Swanton Public Library worked with Advantage Preservation to create. The Swanton Public Library has digitized its microfilm collection of The... Read More

Katonah Village Library Digital Newspaper Project

Advantage Preservation is working with the Katonah Village Library to provide access to the local community’s unique history. The Katonah Village Library began to digitize its 48 microfilm reels of... Read More

Jefferson Public Library Provide Access To 138 Years Of History

Jane Millard, the library director Of Jefferson Public Library starts her article for Iowa Living Magazines, with a series of questions. The questions she asks appears random in nature, yet... Read More

100 Years Of Madison County History Now Online

Amy Christensen shares that “the Library is thrilled to announce the availability of a new online historical research tool free for anyone who has access to the Internet.” Advantage Preservation... Read More

Over 200 Years Of Cazenovia and Madison County Newspapers Online

Advantage Preservation was selected by the New Cazenovia Library to help provide digital access to over 200 years of history, previously only available on microfilm. Jason Emerson wrote an excellent... Read More

The Vernon Parish Newspaper Access Project

In 2015 the Advantage Preservation team worked hand-in-hand with our partners at the Vernon Parish Library to provide digital access to their newspaper microfilm collection. The goal was to make... Read More

Mary Cotton Public Library Makes History Accessible

Advantage Preservation has recently had the privilege of partnering with the Mary Cotton Public Library to help increase and simplify access to their community history. By providing digital access to... Read More

Advantage Preservation was recently featured in The Pantagraph, a central Illinois publication, for the completion of a microfilm digitization project to create access to the Atlanta Argus Newspaper. The Atlanta... Read More

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Posted on May 4, 2011 by Virginia Pierce In The South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program Blog - This fun cigarette advertising campaign for Sovereign Cigarettes, which personified a cigarette as a southern child of good breeding and... Read More

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